Genesis 7:1-9 ▼

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

2 You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

3 and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.

4 Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

5 And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

7 So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8 From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,

9 two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.